Race and religion or belief Summary Race and religion have been combined on this page because they tend to be less important in an occupational health (OH) setting than...
HSE investigation of FE college on Covid-19 measures A further education college was investigated by the HSE after the death of a staff member from Covid-19 in December 2020. In a letter dated ...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) A guide for OH practitioners including: Latest developments Duties of employers OH consultations and tests Health condition etc putting ...
EAT decision on Covid and unsafe working conditions The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a tribunal decision that on the facts the claimant did not have a reasonable belief that the...
Unfair dismissal: unsafe working conditions Summary A worker has protection if (broadly) in circumstances of danger which he reasonably believes to be serious and imminent he leaves hi...
EU case on hearing requirements for prison guards Estonian regulations allowed spectacles etc to be used in deciding whether prison guards met vision requirements, but did not allow hearing ...
Health and safety as a justification for disability discrimination Summary An argument that health and safety justifies excluding a woman or someone with a disability or someone from an ethnic minority etc m...
Protecting an employee’s health as justification for discrimination Diana Kloss reviews an EAT decision which held an employer was entitled to refuse to second a disabled worker to Montenegro, given advice th...
Refusal to second ‘high risk’ worker abroad was justified The EAT upheld an employer’s decision not to second an employee to Montenegro when the secondment was classified as ‘high risk&#...
Testing to protect others, including drugs and alcohol Summary The GDPR applies. Generally testing should be minimised and used only so far as justified. Health and safety reasons will normally b...
